Like larger-than-life artists, athletes, scientists, movie stars, and entrepreneurs, the United States of America generates polarized love-hate responses. The U.S. was born committed to making a new nation based consciously on moral ideals rather than the happenstance of historical evolution: Individuals’ lives are their own to live. They are free to choose their own goals […]
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We’re adding another Q&A session at thinkspot, due to the number of very good questions I’ve been receiving. July 4’s Q&A will focus on the questions about Nietzsche and Rand. (The ones so far are listed below.) July 11’s Q&A will be an open session focusing on the questions about statues, violence from Right and
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Live Q&A on Nietzsche vs. Rand. After two lectures, time for the Q&A session and last part of this mini-course. Saturday, July 4th, 12 -1 PM Central Time, at thinkspot. Free for my subscribers. Feel welcome to post your questions ahead of time. Others can register here: https://thinkspot.com/event_signup?event=lPuwOA
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John Anderson was Deputy Prime Minister of Australia and is now hosting a series of in-depth conversations with prominent thinkers. Others in the series include Niall Ferguson, Claire Lehmann, Bjorn Lomborg, Douglas Murray. I’m happy to be joining their distinguished ranks. Our episode of “Conversations with John Anderson” was recorded in Melbourne, Australia, in March
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This is a work in progress. Corrections and additions welcome. The long comparison table below is also here in PDF format. Nietzsche and Rand: A Comparison of Positions on 124 Issues Stephen R.C. Hicks, Philosophy, Rockford University Updated June 2020 Summary 124 issues tabulated below with quotations and sources. Agreements between Nietzsche and Rand: 21
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Not just one thing explains the new wave of street-populism. Five constituent types, with different levels of understanding and commitment: 1. The mass of protesters: Especially the younger: conditioned by semi- and mis-education, though sometimes with a partial understanding of a real problem. Their moral beliefs stand as unquestionable dogmas of faith in their minds.
When I heard about the CHAZ Antifa/BLM/etc. takeover in Seattle, my first thought was: I wonder how many of them went to Evergreen College? Washington state’s Evergreen College was the site of the infamous racist intimidation/happening/experiment that made international news in 2017. (I recommend thinkspotter Benjamin Boyce’s documentary.) So I Googled it and it turns
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For use in my courses, additions to my Texts in Philosophy page. Martin Luther King, Jr., “Address at the Freedom Rally in Cobo Hall,” 1963. [His first “I have a dream” speech.] Herbert Marcuse, “Repressive Tolerance” (1965). George Walsh, “Defining Religion: The Supernatural as Personal/Impersonal” (1998). Excerpt from The Role of Religion in History. Woodrow
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In May, I led a discussion with the Atlas Intellectuals on George Orwell’s review of The Totalitarian Enemy. The question Orwell asked was: Are the Nazis really Socialist? I’m returning to the group on Friday, June 26 at noon CT to discuss the new Waterfall campaign on Objectivity, beginning with selections from John Stuart Mill’s
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Juneteenth celebrates a great achievement. Slavery had existed for thousands of year in pretty much every culture in the world. But a few brave and lonely voices began to challenge it in the 1700s and within a century—almost a blink of an eye in historical time—it had been eliminated in the civilized parts of the
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